Learn Japanese - Ultimate Getting Started with Japanese Box Set, Lessons 1-55

Absolute Beginner Japanese #7

By: Innovative Language Learning

Narrated by: JapanesePod101.com

Start speaking Japanese in minutes, and grasp the language, culture, and customs in just minutes more with Ultimate Getting Started with Japanese Box Set, a completely new way to learn Japanese with ease! Ultimate Getting Started with Japanese Box Set will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Japanese friends. This Box set includes our Learn Japanese - Introduction to Japanese and Learn Japanese – Gengo Beginner Japanese audiobooks.

Why are the audio lessons so effective?

Why are the audio lessons so effective? You'll receive a syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase, so that you can say every word and phrase instantly. You'll repeat after the professional teacher, so that you can practice proper pronunciation. Quick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even better. And above all, this is a fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily.

You see, unlike other audiobooks, we actually teach both Japanese and Japanese culture. With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations. These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

• Speak Japanese within minutes of your first lesson
• Understand the culture, customs, and people of Japan
• Order the food you want in restaurants
• Travel in taxis, trains, buses, and cars with confidence
• Master manners, etiquette, and customs
• Learn surprise phrases and tips that will leave your guests wondering where you learned them.

This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages. Start speaking Japanese now!

Download the accompanying reference guide.©2008 Innovative Language Learning, LLC (P)2010 Innovative Language Learning, LLC

Learned helpful phrases

I liked that they covered useful phrases that I haven’t heard before in beginning Japanese. I enjoyed the narration from Peter and Naomi sensei. I wished they had used a real woman to portray Ashley rather than a chipmunk.

Good content, horrible acting

Ashley-chan’s voice makes me want to rip my ears off. Her laugh makes me want to die.

You've been saying Sensei wrong all your life.

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

This course is for absolute beginners or people who know the basics of basics of Japanese. Pronunciation is handled by a native japanese speaker and covers some of the most basic common mistakes people can have, while not calling them mistakes.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The book uses conversations to introduce various REAL situations one might find in Japan, all by the proxy of Ashley Jones, who has awesome adventures in Japan and really make the course relatable as she meets characters and interacts with a lot of different people

What does Peter Galante and Naomi Kambe bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Every time they name drop something I know from Japanese culture (Luna Sea or Utada Hikaru)

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me cry with some scaling in difficulty. In one lesson you learn "How much does this cookie cost?" and in the next lesson "Your hotel room is 108, breakfast is served at 7:00 am with this breakfast ticket". While it might not sound so drastic, the learning curve is brutal.

Any additional comments?

Get it, but download the reading material PDF for the phone, it will save you hours of not understanding something because while it was touched upon in the lessons themselves, down the line not memorizing things like numbers, particles or counters really lags the lessons.

good to learn culture and language.

it is a great book to learn about the culture. they cover so much on that. I bought this to learn speaking Japanese. Awesomely structured.

Even though I'm an intermediate learner,

Even though I'm an intermediate learner, I still can learn something in this podcast.
Thank you Japanesepod101